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Chapter 12: Hyperpoisonous (Donovan Curtis)

The perspective transition from Noah in Chapter 11 to Donovan here had some overlap, with Donovan’s phone call with Raina bridging the shift. Maybe that happens regularly and I’m not watching for it, but I feel like most chapters start with a big pull back from the action and then the reader gets reintroduced to the story from a more obviously different viewpoint.

@Josh: If I’m following your train of thought, you think elements of an earlier version of the HYPERGIFTED story—rewritten or removed before the final draft—had Noah doing something that made him responsible for Porquette’s appearance at the elderberries, but her eating them was an unintended consequence. That is definitely a hot take and I love the out-of-the-box deductions. Good memory on the Macdonald Hall bathtub and the limitations it placed on the dorm mates; I hadn’t made that connection.

@Kormaniac Daniel: Glad to see you again. Hope you can share some fun observations on HYPERGIFTED.